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I have been watching this.
I'm leaning toward Ray. But my question is: does it matter?
Why is the brain looked at as the epitome of information processing? Couldn't there be more effective ways or models?
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Boy, I got a laugh from the 1st paragraph, because it is exactly how I've perceived Kurzweil for a number of years. I agree with Myers.
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Short snippet of the relavant talk (not the best quality).
There is no spoon.
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Sebastian Seung provides an excellent presentation of the complexity. http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/speakers/sebastian_seung.htmlThis is why PZ Myers isn't as optimistic as R Kurzweil. Ray seems to think that there is a way of compression, but can DNA & RNA really be truncated? If consciousness exists before its linked into a physical body, then perhaps consciousness could fill in the gaps. However, PZM sees so much detail amid the complexity of physical organic structure. It is essential that more experts in their various fields can share & compare notes. Consciousness & reality isn't just connected to what we perceive as physical reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought.htmlJerry, http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/Fodor/cv.html Specialists are great, but an interdisciplinary approach is also important.
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thanks, JF, for that link to the TED talk. interesting.
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